Capability and Health Functioning in Ethiopian Households

Autor/in	Mabsout, Ramzi
Titel	Capability and Health Functioning in Ethiopian Households
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 101 (2011) 3, S.359-389 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-010-9661-0
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Indicators; Females; Health; Developing Nations; Decision Making; Family Environment; Behavior Patterns; Sociometric Techniques; Personal Autonomy; Health Behavior; Public Health; Health Conditions; Surveys; Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Weibliches Geschlecht; Gesundheit; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Familienmilieu; Soziometrie; Individuelle Autonomie; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Gesundheitswesen; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Äthiopien
Abstract	From a recent Ethiopian representative household survey this paper empirically operationalizes concepts from the capability approach to shed light on the relationship between conversion factors, capability inputs and health functionings. The subjects of the study are women in partnership. The results suggest their health functionings are responsive to specific household bargaining power conversion factors and capability inputs. The paper also tests the extent to which women who take more decisions achieve better health functioning. The model offers evidence that decision-making and health functionings follow a complex pattern as women who took more decisions were not always better off. The conclusion of the paper is that health functioning may be improved by inducing changes to household decision-making patterns. (Contains 28 footnotes, 10 tables, and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10